Lake Pupuke trout release provides ‘quality fishing'

Fish & Game officers are getting ready to
release over 1000 catchable rainbow and brown trout in Lake
Pupuke on Auckland’s North Shore, ahead of Lake Pupuke
Challenge fishing competition.

Fish & Game will truck the
1000 two year-old rainbows – and 100 two year-old browns
– from their Ngongotaha hatchery near Rotorua on Wednesday
April 30.

The fish will be released at Sylvan Park around
mid-day from Fish & Game’s ‘Live Trout Truck’. Last
year’s release took less than 10 minutes but was “quite
entertaining” – as hundreds of bewildered trout zoomed
up and down the shoreline, recalls Auckland-Waikato
fisheries manager Adam Daniel.

Lake Pupuke has been
stocked since the 1880’s and provides a rare opportunity
to fish for trout in a major urban area. Fish & Game also
stock lakes Parkinson and Otamatearoa, both about an
hour’s drive south-west form the CBD.

The trout release
comes just ahead of the annual fishing contest, the Lake
Pupuke Challenge, to be held on the first Sunday in May (4th
event is open to any Fish & Game licenceholder.

Licences
are available at Hunts Sports in Milford or other fishing
stores. No registration is required – show up and fish –
your details will be recorded at
weigh-in.

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